Latin Words

Latin Words

This video shares some words that have Greek and Latin roots. The video gives a list of words, reads it to demonstrate how they are pronounced, and gives an example on how the words are used in a sentence. There are a few amazing facts about the Latin language that are mentioned below: –

Latin is the classical and cultural language of Western Europe. This language belonged to the Indo-European language family.

It was one of the most important languages in most parts of the Europe during the Middle Ages. It was mainly spoken by ancient Romans.

All the five main romance languages which include French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian and Spanish are connected to Latin.

Even though no one speaks Latin as their first language any more, many people study it in school.

It was important to Christianity for a long time and it is still used during some religious activities.

Classic Latin was the official language of the Ancient Rome. It was used in the 1st century BC.

It was the language of more educated people like intellectuals, poets, and philosophers.

It was originally spoken by small groups that lived along the lower part of the Tiber River.

During the Middle Ages, Latin was most widely used in the West for scholarly and literary purposes.

Now it is used to create new words in modern languages including English.